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13
. A term used to describe those who accepted the Weimar Republic not out of conviction but because it was the sensible thing to do.

14
.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, December 21, 1993;
Kritische Justiz
(1993): 393–396.

15
. For instance, in the program
Panorama
on October 7, 1993; in
Die Zeit
, January 14, 1994; and in the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
, February 6, 1994.

16
.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
, December 10, 1993. Earlier, the Bavarian Minister of the Interior Alfred Seidl (CSU) had acted as a legal and political adviser to Frey.

17
. News about the meeting between Max Streibl, former Minister President of Bavaria, and Schönhuber, chairman of the Republikaner, was lost in February 1994 in the tumult of other affairs. The statement issued to the press, that “politics had not been discussed at this meeting,” was surely not meant to be taken seriously. (The Republicans are a small party on the right of the political spectrum. It is active mostly on a local basis.—Trans.)

18
.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, December 16, 1993. A short time later, Zhirinovsky was expelled from Bulgaria, and the German government refused to let him enter the country.

19
. H. Kühnert, “Maunz raus?”
Die Zeit
, February 10, 1994, 66; A. Gorkow, “Die braune Seite des Theodor Maunz,”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
, February 12–13, 1994. The
December 1993 foreword to the twenty-ninth edition of Maunz and Zippelius,
Deutsches Staatsrecht
(Munich, 1994), did not mention either Maunz’s death or the events described here.

20
. I will not discuss the private letters addressed to me, which were, of course, also sent to colleague friends as circular letters. Public statements came from Klaus Vogel in a letter to the editor (
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, January 5, 1994). His doubts that there were “hundreds of articles by Maunz” are certainly justified, but they touch only a marginal issue: After all, there were articles by Maunz, as has now been confirmed by reprints (for instance in the
National-Zeitung
, February 18, 1994). Moreover, Maunz’s work as an expert adviser over a period of about two decades had been sufficiently proved through facsimiles of his handwritten reports.

21
. J. H. Kaiser, “Steine von links auf ein Staatsrechtler-Grab,”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, January 29, 1994.

22
. W. Roth, “Anonyme Beiträge für Extremisten. Enger Kontakt zwischen CSU-Mitglied Maunz und DNV-Chef Frey,”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
, October 9–10, 1993; O. Gritschneder, “Die unbedarften Freunde des Staatsrechtlers Theodor Maunz,” commentary on cultural affairs in
Bayerischer Rundfunk
, October 24, 1993; G. Mauz in
Der Spiegel
42 (1993): 33–34.

23
. A. Hollerbach, “Juristische Lehre und Forschung in Freiburg in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus,” in E. John et al., eds.,
Die Freiburger Universität in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
(1991), 104.

24
. G. Anschütz,
Aus meinem Leben
, edited with introduction by W. Pauly (1993), 328–329.

25
. The popular counter question—what about committed work of constitutional lawyers for left-wing extremism and for the regime of the former East Germany?—remains a theoretical one, given the lack of examples. So far there is no information about support from constitutional lawyers for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), German Communist Party (DKP), Communist League of West Germany (KBW), or Red Army Faction (RAF, a left-wing terrorist group) and, with few exceptions, the jurists of constitutional and international law in the GDR have by now been dismissed or sent into retirement.

INDEX

Abendroth, Wolfgang,
100

Academy for German Law,
7
,
11
,
52
,
67
,
97
,
121
,
128–30

Adenauer, Konrad,
xii
,
xiii
,
3

Adenauer era,
10
,
42

Administrative Courts and Administrative High Courts,
132
,
135
; of Baden,
134–35
,
138
; of Bavaria,
139
; of Bremen,
240n.131
; decisions,
136–42
; of Hessia,
141
; of Oldenburg,
141
; of Prussia,
131
,
134
,
136
,
137–38
,
141
; of Saxony,
130
,
139–40
; of Thuringia,
140–41
,
174
; of Württemberg,
138–39
.
See also
Reich Administrative Court; Verwaltungsgerichte

administrative jurisdiction,
2
,
3
,
16–17
,
103
,
107–8
,
127–44
,
171
,
173

administrative law,
78
,
98–100
,
221n.10
; and administrative studies,
115–16
,
124
; journals,
104–5
; judges,
129
; under National Socialism,
16
,
102–14
; textbooks,
111–14
; theory of,
87–88

administrative planning,
109

administrative studies,
115–26
,
228n.7
; international congresses,
121

Adorno, Theodor,
153

agrarian law and policy,
11
,
14

Ahnenerbe
,
62

Allied occupation,
xii
,
3
,
9
,
167–84
; judicial personnel policies,
167–68
,
171–72
,
174–78
,
183–84
; law under the military government,
9
,
170–78
.
See also
zones of occupation

Altmann.
See
Barbie

Amira, K. von,
61

Amtsgerichte,
171–72
; defined,
1

Anhalt,
142

Anschütz, Gerhard,
13
,
75
,
90
,
96
,
191–92

anti-Bolshevism,
10
,
45

antipositivism,
90–92

antirepublicanism,
92

anti-Semitism,
45
,
49
,
58
,
90
,
97
,
180
.
See also
Jews

AOG.
See
Law on the Organization of National Labor

Arbeitsordnung,
17

arbitrary measures,
13
.
See also
state: prerogative

Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts
,
104

Archiv Kornelimünster,
153

arrests,
95

art: government control,
13

Association of Constitutional Lawyers,
88
,
90
,
99
,
100
,
188
; avoidance of moral issues,
189
; and Maunz case,
190–91

Association of Former Military Judges,
27–28
,
146

Augustine,
6

Augustus,
55

Auschwitz trial,
42
,
185

Austria,
135
,
136
,
206n.18
; administrative studies in,
115

Bader, Karl Siegfried,
26
,
42

Badura, Peter,
110

Barbie, Klaus,
156
,
243n.35

Baring, Martin,
139

Basic Law,
34
,
65
,
88
,
100
,
146
; community clause,
65
; creation,
167–68
; Maunz/Dürig commentary,
186

Bavaria,
111
; government links to DVU,
189–90

Bayerische Verwaltungsblätter
,
104

Beck, C. H. (publisher),
190

Bender, Peter,
58

Benjamin, Hilde,
174
,
180

Beseler, Georg,
45
,
58
,
61

Best, Werner,
114

Bilfinger, K.,
75

Binder, J.,
92

Bismarck, Otto von,
32
,
94

Blätter für administrative Praxis
,
105

Blood Protection Law,
17

Bornhak, Conrad,
89
,
96

bourgeoisie.
See
middle class

Braunschweig,
142
,
176

breeding,
72

Brill, Hermann L.,
100

British Control Commission,
172

Brown and Gray Books,
11

Bruck, Moeller van den,
93

Brüning, Heinrich,
32
,
102

Brunner, H.,
61

Brunner, Otto,
63

Brunstäd, F.,
92

building law,
17

Bundesgerichtshof,
3
,
175
.
See also
Federal Supreme Court

Bundestag,
167
; and People’s Court,
155
,
157–58
,
162

Bundesverfassungsgericht,
2–4
.
See also
Federal Constitutional Court

bureaucracy: distinct from leadership,
120

business law,
18
,
56

canon law,
46

cartels,
18
,
72

causation and fault,
34

Chamberlain, Houston Steward,
58

charity,
198n.81

Christianity,
47
,
95
; Catholic-Apostolic Community,
139
; Catholicism,
66
; Christian Science,
139
; “positive,” endorsed by Nazi party,
7
; Protestantism,
66
.
See also
Jehovah’s Witnesses

churches,
12
,
45
,
62
,
64
; state church law,
171

Churchill, Winston,
32

Cicero,
37

citizenship law,
78

Civil Code (1900),
1
,
50–52
,
58
,
70
,
181
; criticism,
204n.25
; Nazi plan to dismantle,
17

civil law,
17–18
,
44
; and community,
68–72

civil service and civil service law,
78–79
,
135

Code of Criminal Procedure,
161
,
180

Cohen, H.,
89

Coing, Helmut,
26
,
42
,
79
,
182

Commercial Code,
141

commercial law,
98
,
108
,
135
,
139

communal thinking.
See
national community

Communist Party,
12
,
92
,
173–74

Communists,
133
,
140
; assets confiscated,
134

compensation: for concentration camp survivors,
–xii
; law,
69–70
,
135
; for victims of military justice,
153

concentration camps,
xi
,
2
,
18
,
62

Conference of German Legal Historians (1988),
41

Conference of Legal Historians (1936),
54

conflict between natural and positive law,
vi–viii
,
6
,
10
,
179
,
181

conflict between Roman and German law,
41
,
43–47
,
50–56
,
57
,
207n.20
.
See also
Point 19

conquered territories,
132
,
136
; special law for,
19–20

conscientious objectors,
149

conservatism,
66
,
91

constitutional law,
12–14
,
33
,
82–83
,
106
,
217n.1
; and idea of community,
68
,
73–80
; in early Nazi regime,
12–14
; theory,
87–101

constitutions: Bismarckian,
89
,
94–95
; of Federal Republic,
3–4
,
168
,
191
; of Weimar Republic,
viii
,
1
,
13
,
33
,
74
,
94–96
,
159

Control Commission,
175

Control Council,
167–68
,
170–73
,
177
,
179–82

copyright law,
72

Corpus Juris,
52

Court of Appeals. See Oberlandesgerichte

courts,
1–4
,
16–17
,
19–20
,
148
; German terms defined,
1
,
3
.
See also
names of courts

courts-martial,
146–48
,
152

crime,
172
; as viewed by National Socialism,
20
; of Nazis,
11
,
41
,
169
,
172
,
180
,
182
; war,
180

criminal law,
11
,
35
; and community,
72–73
; under National Socialism,
19–20
,
35
,
99
,
147
; in occupied Germany,
179–81

Dahm, Georg,
30–31
,
41–42
,
59–60
,
73

Danckwerts, Justus,
113
,
129
,
132–33

Darré, Rudolf Walter,
58

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